In
a traditional farm topology SharePoint, the common architecture in small and
medium-sized environments is the two-tier design. This design utilizes two
servers: one for the web front-end and application services and the other for
database services with separate Active Directory Server. Now with SharePoint
2016, we have - MinRole, which is very similar to the other topology designs
that we have been using with SharePoint 2013. We will discuss more about
MinRoles while we install the same.
Here,
we are installing SharePoint server 2016 along with Project server 2016 in a
single server farm environment, where we have separate Active Directory and
separate SQL Database server that is well suited for any small or medium-sized
environments.
Before
proceeding to install SharePoint server 2016, we need to make sure our
environment meets all of the pre-required configuration.
Software and Hardware Requirements-
Along
with the above requirements, Microsoft SharePoint products also require to
install the following on a server farm:
o
Windows Management Framework version 3.0
o
Application Server Role
o Web
Server (IIS) Role
o
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2
o
Update for .NET Framework 4(KB2898850)
o SQL
Server 2012 Service Pack 1 Native Client
o
Microsoft Identity Extensions
o
Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime v1.0 SP1 (x64)
o
Windows Server AppFabric 1.1
o
Windows Identity Foundation v1.1
o
Microsoft Information Protection and Control Client (MSIPC)
o
Microsoft WCF Data Services
Service
Account Requirement:
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Account
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Account Name and Purpose
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Requirements
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Server farm account or database access account
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We are using the
username - SPAdmin
The server farm
account is used to perform the following tasks:
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Additional permissions
are automatically granted for the server farm account on Web servers and
application servers that are joined to a server farm.
The server farm
account is automatically added as a SQL Server login on the computer that
runs SQL Server. The account is added to the following SQL Server security
roles:
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Install SharePoint prerequisites:
• Login into the server with SPAdmin user.
• Download and install SharePoint
prerequisites from the SharePoint 2016 setup.
• Run the setup as administrator, and choose
install software pre-requisites.
• Click
on Next. On the next window, select “I accept the terms…” and click on Next.
• Click on Finish to restart.
• After restarting, the pre-requisite tool
will resume with the remaining installation.
• After the installation is completed, the
summary screen will show the status as below:
• Click on Finish.
• Click on Install SharePoint Server.
• Enter the Product Key and click on Continue.
• Click on “I accept
the terms…” and click on Next.
• Choose the file location where you want to
put your SharePoint configuration file.
• Once the installation is done, click
on Close to start the configuration wizard.
• When the
SharePoint is installed, you will automatically be prompted to run the
SharePoint 2016 Products Configuration Wizard, click on Next.
• Select Create a new server farm option, and click Next.
• On the next page, enter the configuration
database name, database server name and user account details and click Next.
Now
you will get a new specific server role wizard which is also known as
'MinRole'. In the earlier version of SharePoint, for a large SharePoint
deployment plan, you needed to install SharePoint services with specific roles.
For example, if you wanted all your end user requests to be placed on one
server, then Web Front-End (WFE) server was
used to handle your end user requests and similarly for the APP server, Search
server, and Cache server.
This
complete process was quite complex and time taking. Now, you no longer have to
worry about the services which should be started on which servers. By deploying
your farm in a recommended MinRole topology, you can focus on what
functionalities are needed to be enabled in your farm and let SharePoint take
care of the rest.
SharePoint
2016 server have six server roles as following:
• Front-end: Services and components that
serve for end user request are placed on web front end roles.
• Application: Services and component that
serve backend request like search crawl request are placed on application
roles.
• Distributed Cache: This role is assigned
to servers to load balance end user requests among the front ends.
• Search: This role is for services and
components that are responsible for search indexing and crawling.
• Custom: This role is reserved for services
that needed to be isolated from other 3rd party application services.
• Single-server farm: It doesn't include SQL
Server express. It includes all service application, services and components
required for a single server farm. It is meant for the development, testing or
small production environment.
The
first five roles are for multi-server farm environment and the last role is for
a single server farm.
Please note that while you select 'role', either it would
be a multiple server farm or a single server farm. If you are selecting a
single server role here, then you will not be able to extend it into multiple
server farm in future.
Specify
a port number for the Central Admin or you can use the default one. Also select
the NTLM
installation mode at this point, and press Next.
• This
wizard would take 15 to 20 minutes to complete the configuration. If you
encounter any errors, you need to check SQL server connectivity, user
permission, etc.
• If everything goes smooth, then you will
get a Configuration Successful screen.
• Now here
you will get an initial configuration wizard for the SharePoint farm. It will ask to sign up for the customer experience improvement
program, select No, I don't wish to
participate option.
• Here you can define a separate account for
services and select the services that you want
on your SharePoint server.
• Skip the site collection creation wizard.
• Click on Finish at the bottom of this page.
After
all the configuration, here you get a Central Administration page for the new
SharePoint 2016 server.
The
below section provide step-by-step instructions to install Project Server 2016
for small production environment using single server farm.
INSTALL
AND CONFIGURE PROJECT SERVER 2016:
• Open SharePoint 2016 Management shell, and
run as administrator.
• Run the Enable-ProjectServerLicense
-Key < Product Key of Project Server> to enable Project Server 2016 Service application.
• Create a new content database using the
below PowerShell.
New-SPContentDatabase -Name EPMContentDB -DatabaseServer sp2016
-WebApplication "SharePoint - 80"
• On ownerAlias, enter the domain name/user name.
• Now Enable PWA feature on PWA site using
below PowerShell.
• Change the security to Project Server
Permission Mode.
• Now it’s time to browse
the PWA site. Go to the browser and type your PWA URL. http://sp2016/sites/PWA
Hope everything going well with you, If you faced any issue contact me
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